DM Smith wrote:
> I am working on the installer and hope to have a first pass done by next
Monday, God willing. I am starting with what Lynn and Troy did, so it
may be a final pass.
I was wondering what the status of this is.
Here is a link to YAPI (yet another prototype installer)
http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/LcdBibleInstaller_prototype.zip
It attempts to be a draft for a "family of CrossWire applications", using
LcdBible as an example, and taking into account:
* that The SWORD Project's BibleCS sword.exe may have already been
installed,
* that SWORD_PATH may be defined
* that BibleStudy may have been installed
It attempts to detect SWORD_PATH, sword.exe, and biblestudy.exe, and put up
a custom nsis page if so. The default is that the first choice is to install
LcdBible in the same directory as sword.exe, then with SWORD_PATH, then with
BibleStudy.exe, and then on its own. This is done to avoid a proliferation
of resources being installed.
The above is admittedly rather complicated ... here is a patch file to
modify SWMgr::findConfig that looks in the parent directory for mods.conf or
mods.d, then in ../resources, then in the current directory, then in
SWORD_PATH, then in HOME. This is to implement a directory structure that is
less tied to modules being installed in the same directory as sword.exe
http://lcdbible.sourceforge.net/misc/swmgr_findconfig_lda_060201d.patch
Caveats:
* Not at all a full installer .... mostly to illustrate installation choices
for getting sword-devel list feedback
* detection of sword.exe based on 1.5.6 practice
* detection of biblestudy.exe just a guess to illustrate
* doesn't really install anything
* uses "classic" nsis rather than mui for now .... easier for me to develop
and debug
* doesn't handle InstallManager
* no provision for uninstaller